Waiting In The Wings

Sunday, December 18, 2016

Yes, missed the Friday post this week, busy, busy and achieving not much at all!

Quilting on Jacob's quilt - simple straight lines

given that this is for a five year old and needs to hold

up well.

Not a very pretty sight, threads waiting to be dealt with and the

lines just eyeballed so the resulting squares are never quite

the same size!

Made a start on section 8 of Gypsy Wife

and deciding on fabric for the outer strips

of the block to fit underneath. Still playing.

I'm going to have a break now until the end of the year
or the beginning of the New Year, lots of plans including

working on the blog. I already have a new photo for the header, the centre

piece of Northern Lights - albeit not yet quilted. Grateful thanks to Melody ofmixitupmel for sorting out the size, lettering and centering for the new header.
More work on a better set up
in my tiny studio is also on my list of things to do.

My clumps of Hellebore finished flowering a few weeks ago
but suddenly last week up popped this

Friday, December 2, 2016

The Kaleidoscope quilt is now a flimsy waiting to be quilted, I'm thrilled

with how it looks. You might remember I wanted

to create the impression of an old Persian carpet and I think

I've achieved that. So, here is

Isfahan

photographed early this morning in the back garden. I had to

maneouvre the display board down there to catch the light.

Measuring 48" x 64", the colours are a little lighter in this photo

due to the sun.
No border going on this quilt.

Isfahan draped over my much loved old bench seat

My Friday Favourite is an old Royal Doulton jugfrom a pottery range made under the headerUnder The Greenwood Tree

This jug belonged to a dear old Aunt of mine, her collection of potterycame to me after she died. She was the Aunt who was born in 1903and went into "service" at the age of 13yrs - shades of the downstairsmaids in Downton Abbey. I wish now we had been able to enjoymore conversations about her early days. I'm way behind on replying to comments left on myblog last Friday, apologies to those bloggers, it's been a funny old week made complete by two brokenteeth and two visits to the dentist.One bright spot was a package of fabric received

I love artichokes but only to look at, not to eat!andI couldn't resist the colours in the fabrics below.

horrific land slips. No power, no water, no sewerage. People seeing their homes destroyed.
The only way in

was by helicopter but I believe now that they will try and get in by sea.

In the mist of seeing all the heartbreak for folks down there I
needed some time at the machine.

Background story is HERE but following the layout suggested didn't work
for me so I changed it. After fiddling around this was the result

still didn't look good so, not helped by being placed haphazardly on the flannel

which is covering my Gypsy Wife pinned underneath!

I decided to add a 3/4" sashing which I think unifies
all these blocks and gives a better look overall.
No borders but I'll use the same sashing fabric for the binding.
This can be used in Summer out on the bench seat in the
back garden.

Monday, November 7, 2016

for my 70th birthday on 26th October. Yes, I did have a lovely day until

9.30pm when I was taken to the Emergency Care locally and then on to

hospital by ambulance. I'll not go into the detail, just let's say it was a GI problem

which floored me!

Luckily it wasn't too long a stay, just 24 hours,

I was discharged on condition I took it easy for at

least a week, it's taken me longer than that to begin to feel

more like my usual self.

I did no quilting until two days ago,

couldn't face Gypsy Wife nor Kaleidoscope with my concentration span

being low, so something easy with no real mental input was needed.

The sum total of my achievement over the past two weeks below

all the fabrics are from the newest Tula Pink range, 12 blocks in total

and a super size at 16" finished. Just what the doctor ordered!

One of our newest roses is blooming

Princess Alexandra of Kent

Princess Alexandra fully open

The scent from this rose is unbelievable.Apart from all the above I've been catching up with reading newish books,more on that in a later post.

The other consumer of my time has been the election in the U.S.A.My iPad is practically glued to my hands, I will justsay I certainly know who I don't want to see as President. My stress levelsare growing by the hour.The TV will be switched on Wednesday lunchtime here in New Zealand, it will stay that way until the final result comes through.

I guess some of you will have a great week, some not so great, buthappy quilting anyway!!